American Literatcy Final Flashcards
1
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blinded by brother
My Life and Hard Times
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
A
James Thurber
2
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science fiction and dark humor survived WWII bombing Cat's Cradle Slaughterhouse Five A Man Without a Country
A
Kurt Vonnegut
3
Q
many children died or suffered during life New Hampshire rural writing New England Nothing Gold Can Stay The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Spoke at JFK inauguration
A
Robert Frost
4
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believed in physics
A Faithful Narritive
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
unified religion with physics and science
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Jonathan Edwards
5
Q
author, printer, diplomat helped write Declaration of Independence Poor Richard's Almanac by Richard Sanders polymath (accomplished in many fields) wrote autobiograhpy and self-help book
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Benjamin Franklin
6
Q
ancestor involved in Salem witchtrials Scarlet Letter focus on New England romantic writing changed last name
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Nathanial Hawthorne
7
Q
writer, poet, crtitic "the father of the detective story" The Raven The Mask of Red Death mystery, horror, science fiction
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Edgar Allan Poe
8
Q
novelist, poet
Moby Dick
Billy Bud
Typee
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Herman Melville
9
Q
lived during Civil War The Innocents Abroad The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Fin realism, hypocrisy, opression real name Samuel Langhorne
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Mark Twain
10
Q
father believed in equality, transendentalist worked as nurse during Civil War Hospital Sketches Little Women influenced by war Work Modern Mephisophis
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Louisa May Alcott
11
Q
lived in isolation thousands of poems written, only 11 published Hope is the Thing with Feathers odd punctation and capitalization wrote in quatrains
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Emily Dickinson
12
Q
The Portrait of a Lady The Wings of a Dove Daisy Miller The Golden Bowl brother was known psychologist inspired by Hawthorne
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Henry James
13
Q
born into slavery anti-slavery and women's rights lecturer My Bondage My Freedom abolitionism
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Frederick Douglas
14
Q
Devil's Dictionary cynical, sarastic ghost stories many pseudonyms inspied by Twain and Poe An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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Ambrose Bierce
15
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The Awakening (scandalous) The Story of an Hour Bayou Folk A Night in Acadie feminist author
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Kate Chopin
